Written by: Eugenie
Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner
Directed by: Chris Long
Original airdate: February 18, 1996
Guest stars: John Shea as Lex Luthor; Billy Dean as Red
Dixon; Troy
Evans as Bibbo
Bibowski; Paul Linke as the church deacon; Ron
Porterfield as the passenger.

Clark is nonplussed as
Lois-clone joins him in bed and then rolls over and goes
to sleep. The next morning he confronts her,
but she avoids the subject and also tells him that she's
canceled their Hawaii reservations. At one point he
changes into Superman in front of the clone, and she is
thrilled to know that she is Mrs. Superman -- she can
have anything she wants. She goes on a massive shopping
spree, and Clark begins to suspect something is
wrong.

Meanwhile,
Lex has kidnaped Lois, and she is extremely angry. But,
that anger quickly turns to tears when she learns that
the clone is married to Clark. After talking to his
parents, Clark begins to believe that the woman is not
Lois. He asks Perry about Lois' skiing accident, scans
Lois-clone's ankle and discovers that it has never been
broken. He tries to get the truth out of her, but Perry
and Jimmy stop him from intimidating her. As they are
riding in Lex's limo, Lois escapes, but, before she can
get to Superman, she is hit by a car. After bumping her
head, Lois thinks that she is the heroine of a novel she
was writing two years ago -- a lounge singer named Wanda
Detroit who had a bad relationship with a man named Clark
but whose true love is Kent. At the same time, Lois-clone
is trying to kill Lois because she wants Clark. She also
shoots Lex, who is trying to stifle her plan. Lois
then gets a job as a lounge singer at Bibbo Bibowski's
club.

When Clark gets home, he is
shocked to find Lex there. Lex proposes that they team up
to find Lois because Lois-clone is trying to kill her.
When Red Dixon, who has been assisting Lois, calls the
Planet and says that Lois Lane has been trying to kill
Wanda, Jimmy relays the information to Clark. But Lex
overhears.Clark goes to the club, and Lois, thinking he
is bad news, runs out. Lex meets her and tells her he is
Kent, her true love. He convinces her to act like Lois
and talk to Clark. She tells him that she had had doubts
about marrying him, that she doesn't love him, and that
she is going offwith Lex. Although he lets her go,
Clark warns Lex that he will get Lois back.

Classic Lines:

1. Lex: Well,
yes, but you almost married me, so, obviously, you're
flexible.

3. Clark: You know how, when the holidays come up, and
you're all excited about making your house just explode
with warmth and love? So you, you go out, and you buy a
new box of lights, and you hang em on the tree, and
you're just waiting for that burst of warmth and love,
and then you plug 'em in and then . . . nothing happens.
Jonathan: Nothing happens?
Clark: Nothing.
Jonathan: No sparks? No flickering? No electricity at
all?
Clark: The power is out.
Martha: The two of you have more electricity than anyone
I've ever seen, and I think we've pretty much beaten this
metaphor to death.

4. Lois clone: You're ignoring me. I hate that.

5. Wanda: Trouble sticks to me like stink on old fish.

6. Lex: No. You don't make deals with me, frog-eater.

7. Lois clone: Don't be ridiculous. If I give you the
gun, I can't shoot Lois. Duh!

8. Clark: When did you last see her?
Lex: Outside a bank. She'd just kicked me in the jaw.
Clark: That's Lois.
Lex: She's an amazing woman. I've never known anyone like
her.
Clark: Fearless!
Lex: Stupidly so at times.
Clark: I try to get her to take it easy but . . .
Lex: she won't listen. And when she's sad and she cries .
. .
Clark: you wanna die.
Lex: Tell me about it. I'll help you find her, Kent. In
this one instance, you can trust me.

Clark beats himself up for
letting Lois go, and Wanda has dreams about Clark and
Lex. Lex sets off a bomb, which Superman can't
stop, and they declare war on each other. The bomb was
set to divert Superman while there was an unsuccessful
attempt to kidnap the clone. The clone apologizes for
trying to kill Lois and tells Clark about the money
Luther has in a bank which only Lois can get. Meanwhile,
Wanda wonders why there is so much she can't remember,
and the clone tells Clark she loves him. Lex and
Wanda break into S.T.A.R. Labs and steal clone fetuses
created by Dr. Mamba.

Lex's
spiritual advisor, Asabi, will transfer their souls into
new bodies so that no one can find them. Wanda also
continues to have dreams and become more like the real
Lois. Asabi tells Lex that Lois still longs for Clark and
that the only way she'll give him up is if she kills him.
The clone gets the money, and Lex kidnaps her. He
tells her that she has only two days to live, and, in
order to get more life, she tells Lex that Clark is
Superman, but Lex tells her that there is no way to make
her live longer. When she feels badly about what she has
done, she tells Clark what she told Lex. At the
same time, Lex buys a top secret weapon, weakens Clark,
and kidnaps Martha. But the clone leads him to Lois. Lois
can't shoot Clark, and both the clone and Lex die from
the weapon. During the rescue, Lois gets hit on the head,
but, although she knows she's Lois, she doesn't remember
Clark.

Classic Lines:

1. Lex (to Superman): Now,
tell me, be honest, isn't one of us without the other
incomplete, almost unnecessary? Or am I all alone here?

2. Lois clone: I really need to talk to you. Alone!
Subtle hint!

3. Lois clone (eating a frog): Oh, this gross you out?
I'm sorry, but I think I need the vitamins.

4. Lois clone: Clark, I've got this whole speech
memorized, so it would just be sorta nice if I could
sorta go in order.

5. Lois clone: Okay, speech adios.

6. Lois clone: Well, is it okay if I love you?

Clark: Sure, yes. Just don't kill anybody over it, okay?

Lois clone: Ohmigod, that was two days ago. You have got
to learn to let things go.

7. Jimmy: Out of her head, kidnaped by Lex Luthor, you
married to a clone. Man, if it ain't one thing with you
guys, it's another.

8. Wanda: Well, I never pictured myself as a blonde, but,
what the hell, my life can't be any crazier than it
already is.

9. Lois clone: I look like her, and I can sound like her,
and everybody thinks that I am her, and I learn real
fast, and, if you give me a month, I'll be her. And I
have $200 million, so, you have to admit, the whole
package, it doesn't totally suck.

Clark puts Lois in a
sanitarium under the care of Dr. Deter, who is a
specialist on memory loss. But Dr. Deter tells
Clark that he can't tell Lois about their relationship,
and they can't talk about work. Clark reluctantly
agrees. Meanwhile, Dr. Mendenhall, who begins to
treat Lois, programs his patients to kill people he has
been hired to assassinate. The patients then have strokes
so that they can't talk. When Dr. Deter senses that
Lois is getting closer to Clark, he restricts his access
to her because he is falling for her. Lois, however,
can't fight her journalistic instincts and helps Clark to
figure out Dr. Mendenhall's scheme (although she tries to
kill Perry). But when Lois' memory starts to return, she
doesn't recall her relationship with Clark and tells him
that she is falling for Dr. Deter.

Classic Lines:

1. Jimmy: C.K., you know that
there's a chance, slim, that Lois might not recover.
Clark: No, Jimmy, there is no chance of that. None.

2. Lois: I think I remember wanting to fly. I wanted to
feel safe, up and away from all the confusion down here.
I still have dreams about flying over the city. Actually,
they seem more like memories.

3. Lois: I feel like Nancy Drew, whoever that is.

4. Lois: First, I break in. Now, I'm about to go through
this man's office. How can something so wrong feel so
right?

5. Lois: You're giving me that look.
Clark: What look?
Lois: That
Lois-has-gone-off-the-deep-end-in-pursuit-of-an-angle
look.
Clark: I just don't think we should rush into anything.
Lois: Well, sometimes you have to rush.
Clark: And sometimes you have to be careful.
Lois: I am careful.
Clark: You are never careful.
Lois: And you always walk on eggshells.
Clark: Well, I'm just trying to be thorough.
Lois: What, I'm not?
Clark: Why did you say that?
Lois: Say what?
Clark: That I always walk on eggshells. You said that I
always walk on eggshells. How would you know I always do
anything unless you remembered that I do?
Lois: I don't know. I don't know how I know. I know. I
just know that this conversation is driving me nuts.
Goodnight.
Clark: The sign! Yes! Thank you! Thank you!

6. Lois: I always knew I was meant to fly.
Superman: Yes, Lois, you were.
Lois: You seem very sure.
Superman: I am.
Lois: You're the strongest man in the world, but there's
such gentleness in your eyes.

8. Clark: My advice -- seize the moment, Chief, because
you never know
when your relationship's gonna get hit with a busted-up
wedding, a psychopathic killer, amnesia, or multiple
personalities. Go to dinner, Chief.
Perry: You've seen it all, haven't you, son?
Clark: I hope so. What else could there be?

Bad Brain Johnson's brother,
Herkimer, (who is also a patient of Dr. Deter's) attempts
to make his mother love him. He breaks into a warehouse
containing his brother's things and steals some of
them. Meanwhile, Superman tells Dr. Deter that he'd
better be looking out for Lois' best interest, and Lois
goes back to work. But Max tells her that her feelings
for him are appropriate, and Clark struggles with not
being able to tell Lois the truth about their
relationship.

Herkimer
develops a machine which sends waves through the city,
making everyone but Clark and Lois vulnerable to
suggestion: Clark is unaffected, and it causes Lois to
have flashbacks, although she doesn't remember Clark yet.
When Herkimer's break-in at an electrical plant leaves
behind a clue which looks like the work of Bad Brain,
Lois, Clark and Deter talk to his mother. She shows them
a picture of the two boys when they were kids, but, when
they leave, she tells Herkimer to kill them because she
blames them for Bad Brain's death.

Out of desperation, Clark tells
Lois that he loves her, that she loves him and that they
were going to getmarried. Lois freaks out and runs to
Max, who then, by hypnotic suggestion, tries to make her
forget Clark and think she loves only him. He tells her
she must quit the Planet. When she does, fortunately,
another wave hits, and she remembers Superman saving her
and kissing her numerous times. Lois then figures out
that Herkimer is the boy in the picture. She and Max
discover his machine and another wave hits. Lois
remembers everything and punches out Max. Then she and
Clark take another flight above the city, and he slips
her engagement ring back on her finger.

Classic Lines:

1. Lois: It is
Jimmy, right?
Jimmy: Yeah.
Lois: Jimmy Carter?
Jimmy: No. Ah, Jimmy Olsen.
Lois: Sorry, bad reception. I think I've still got some
wires crossed. You know, yesterday, I could have sworn
that, some time within the last year, I was abducted by
aliens.

3. Jimmy: This guy's bedside manner includes breakfast in
the morning.
4. Perry: Just take your cue from the master of cool
here, huh? Slow and easy.
(Lois and Deter walk in).
Lois: Perry, Jimmy, Clark, I quit.
Jimmy: You what?
Lois: I need to get away so that I can totally recover.
Deter: We're leaving the country.
Clark: No, no, you can't.
Lois: We're going to the South of France. Max has a home
there, and he thinks that one-on-one intensive therapy. .
. .
Perry: (Lunging at Deter) What are you doing, you little
brainsucker?
Clark: Lois, listen to me.
Lois: No, I know what's best for me.
Perry: Hey, what's the deal here?
Jimmy: Chief, calm down.
Perry: No, the gates are up, and this calamity train is
gonna stop now!
Jimmy: Breathe or something.
Clark: Lois, I can't let you go, not this time.
Deter: Clark, you have no choice in this.
Clark: Deter, trust me on this, you have no idea who
you're talking to.

5. Lois: (Referring to Superman) Is he in love with me
too?
Clark: Well, it's kind of complicated.

6. Lois: You're always leaving.
Clark: And I always come back.

7. Lois: Hold that thought. (Walks over to Dr. Deter).
Doctor, I think
our time is just about up. (She punches Deter and looks
at Clark) I'm back!

8. Clark: And do you remember this? (He slips the ring on
her finger).
Lois: I do

Lois and Clark attend Lois'
high school reunion, where they learn that the spouses of
two of Lois' friends have disappeared. The woman behind
it, Annette Westman, is a former classmate who was
unpopular in high school. She has developed a shampoo
which shrinks people, and she plans to use it to make the
popular people feel lonely, like she felt and then have
them confide their pain to her. Clark uses the
shampoo, but the effect is not immediate, and he
encounters an exterminator in his apartment -- the man
who works for Annette. Clark finally tells Lois
that he is shrinking. Lois' friend tells her that, when
her husband was taken, one of the neighbors saw an
exterminator's van.

After
getting some discouraging news from Dr. Klein, Clark
tells Lois that she can't see him. When Lois goes to his
apartment, however, she struggles with Annette's
assistant, who drops the shampoo. Lois then takes the
shampoo to Dr. Klein, who is less than optimistic.
Clark leaves an article on a scientist's research
regarding shrinking but tells Lois that he can't put her
through any more of the pain that she is experiencing.
Lois realizes that the name of the exterminator company
is the school's mascot backwards. And Dr. Klein tells
Lois that the doctor whose research was used worked for a
cosmetics company -- the one Annette owns.

Thus, Lois goes to Annette's to
get the research notes so that an antidote can be made.
Clark shows up at Annette's as well. When Annette
tries to shoot Lois, Clark saves her and also knocks the
shampoo onto Annette, which disintegrates her. Lois
forgives Clark for pushing her away,and she decides, with
Clark's blessing, not to change her name when they are
married.

Classic Lines:

1. Clark: You got elected with
that hair?
Lois: I was stuck in my Charlie's Angels phase. Everybody
was.

2. Clark: (Reading from Lois' yearbook) You're in my
dreams like a
touchdown pass. I can't help noticing that you've got a
great . . .
Lois: Give me that!

3. Lois: Clark, Dick. Dick, Clark.

4. Perry: Don't fight it, Clark. When the pitbull gets
hold of a bone, it just ain't gonna let it go.

5. Annette: Whatever LoLo wants, LoLo gets.

6. Clark: I'd just stepped out of the shower, and, in
walks this exterminator guy looking for rats.
Lois: You're kidding. Did he see anything?
Clark: No. I was wearing a towel.

7. Clark: Are we Cajun cooking again?

8. Lois: Clark, ask me to scour the Earth, wake up every
cop, knock on
every door, but please don't ask me to walk away from
you. I don't know how to do that.

9. Clark: I look like Mighty Mouse.

10. Lois and Clark (simultaneously, to each other): You
are so stubborn!

Lois and Clark begin to
discuss their wedding again, and Superman saves a space
station which is sabotaged. Dr. Klein sends Lois and
Clark to the origination of the signal to the space
station -- a house which is for sale. But they don't find
anything suspicious, except for a real estate broker
named Dave Miller (Ching). Dr. Klein tells Lois and Clark
that the space station was set to right itself if
Superman hadn't saved it. They also learn that there is
no real estate agent named Dave Miller.

Meanwhile, Ching and Zara (known as
"Sarah" at the Planet) plan to set up a other
test for Superman: He has to put together a CD player,
solve a riddle and stop a bomb outside of the Planet,
which he does. Superman also spots "Dave
Miller," but he is gone before Superman can catch up
with him. Lois and Clark go back to the house and
find a microtransmitter which emits a hologram message
from Ching. Dr. Klein looks at the code and finds the
company that wrote it is "Ching Ltd." Lois and
Clark go to the office listed for the company and Ching
and Zara show Clark two bombs -- one aimed at Clark's
apartment and one at Jimmy and Perry. Superman borrows a
splitter from S.TA.R. abs and uses it to split his heat
vision and disarms both bombs.

They also discover that Ching
has superstrength. In the meantime, Lois and Clark
discuss buying a house, and Lois has doubts about whether
she and Clark want the same things. Clark sees a house as
a place which means permanence. Lois tells him hat, in
her experience, a home is not so permanent, but Clark
assures her that they are permanent. lark then hears
Ching's voice calling him to his apartment. When they get
there, they find Ching and Zara. Ching creates a
kryptonite force field and threatens to kill himself to
see if Clark will pass through the field and risk himself
to save him. Clark does it, and Ching agrees that he is
the "one." As Ching and Zara fly off, Lois and
Clark wonder where they came from.Ching and Zara discuss
telling Clark that he must leave Earth, but they hear a
voice which tells them that he will kill Kal-El now that
they have found him.

Classic Lines:

. Clark: Okay, okay, okay, so
barring any further bouts of amnesia . . .
Lois: Or shrinking . . .
Clark: Or cloning, or kryptonite or time travel or
voodoo, I say we get married sooner rather than later.
Lois: Me too. I just have to wait long enough for my
mother to recover from our last wedding.
Clark: Ooh, Lois, I'd like to get married this century,
okay?

2. Lois: Of course, where else it would be? Every villain
in the universe seems to operate out of Metropolis. For
once, I just wish we could have a villain in Maui, or
Aspen, Monte Carlo.

3. Lois: I had the weirdest dream. I dreamed I was in
this house in the
backyard and I had this chef's hat on. I was barbecuing
burgers, and my legs were turning into roots, and they
were growing into the ground, and I was screaming,
"I am not an oak. I am free."

4. Ching: Well, he would have failed without Lane's help.
No doubt he'd
have put that ridiculous suit of his on backwards if she
weren't around.

5. Lois: What's a yurt?

6. Clark: When I was growing
up, my home meant permanence, a place to be safe. My
life, it's so chaotic now, going from disaster to
disaster. I just always dreamed of having my own real
home.
Lois: When I was a kid, home was where mom was in the
lounge chair getting drunk, and daddy was in the backyard
burning steaks, and trying to explain what he was doing
kissing Mrs. BelCanto in the church parking lot.
Permanence wasn't so permanent at my house.
Clark: Lois, you and I are going to be as permanent as
permanent can be.
Lois: So, I guess I should stop running?
Clark: I won't burn the steaks. I promise.
Lois: Forget the steaks. Just don't be kissing Mrs.
BelCanto.

After Clark saves someone, he
gets a telepathic message from Zara. He meets Zara and
Ching in their ship, and they tell him that they and
about a thousand others were sent from Krypton at birth
as an experiment to search out a more stable planet,
which they established as New Krypton. Zara tells Clark
that she and he are of noble blood and that they were
married at birth. She tells him that there will be a
civil war if their houses are not joined. Clark tells
Lois all of this and tells her that Ching and Zara expect
him to go back with them and rule on New Krypton.

Meanwhile, Lord Nor (the voice at the
end of "Through A Glass, Darkly") sends an
assassin, Tez, to kill Clark because he will marry Zara
and be ruler if Clark is dead. Tez, who is able to look
like anyone, goes to Smallville to find Clark. Lois
is upset, and Clark tells her that he won't forget who he
is. But Zara and Ching warm them of Lord Nor and Tez and
alert them to their ruthlessness. When Zara and
Clark place their hands on his spaceship, they get a
message from Jor-El. He tells Clark that creating peace
for the Kryptonians is his destiny. Tez takes
Martha's form and tries to kill Clark. Lara tells Clark
of Kryptonian ways. He tells her that he loves Lois and
that he won't leave. But she tells him that he has not
yet made up his mind. Lois tells Clark that she feels he
is drifting away. He tries to reassure her, but he is
called away to a isaster.

While he is gone, Tez takes
Jimmy's form and then tells Lois that there have to be
mourners left behind. Lois goes to Zara and Ching and
tells them to leave. Zara tells her that there will be
riots, murders and civil war without Clark. She also says
she has feelings for Ching, but she tells Lois that there
are more important things than the love of two
people. Tez tries to kill Clark again and seems to
get stronger with every encounter. Lois and Clark go to
talk to his parents. They tell him about when they fought
for civil rights and people asked why they were doing it
because it wasn't their fight. But it was something they
believed in. They asked Clark if what Zara and Ching were
asking was something he believed in.

Finally, Lois and Clark decide
that he should go to New Krypton, and they tell this to
Ching and Zara. Clark defeats Tez, who kills
himself for failing in his mission. Lord Nor tells Clark
telepathically that they will battle again on New
Krypton. Lois gives Clark her wedding ring, and they
pledge their love to one another. They agree that
they are married in their hearts. Clark points out his
star, and Lois says that she will look to it every night.
At the Daily Planet, Superman addresses the world and
asks them to look inside themselves for a hero. He then
says goodbye to his parents and Lois, and flies off with
Ching and Zara. Later, as Lois is sitting in her
apartment crying, Clark sends her a telepathic message:
"Lois, I love you."

2. Lois: Yeah, well, I guess it would take a special guy
to shuck his adoring parents and the woman he loves for a
life of loneliness and violence, possible death on some
space rock. Maybe I'm missing the big picture.
Clark: No, no, this is obviously a very emotional topic
for you.
Lois: Yeah, well, us wacky Earth women, we get mighty
cranky about losing our husbands.

3. Clark: Well, that's too bad. Because as loud and
cluttered and sloppy as this world is, it's also full of
passion, feelings. Like I have for Lois. And feeling like
that, that is the greatest thing there is.
Zara: And it's a selfish thing. Certainly for people with
noble blood.
Clark: This thing that I have with Lois, it's the kind of
thing you never, ever let go of because it is one of the
few perfect things in this world. And I value that above
all else. Above my own life.

4. Lois: You've had two weddings and only the one to her
is real.

5. Clark: I have to go.
Lois: The voice you just heard, was it. . . .
Clark: A bridge collapsed.
Lois: Oh good. I, I mean . . .

6. Zara: But what I'm talking about is more important
than two people's
love.
Lois: I've always thought that was the most important
thing there was.

7. Lois: You're asking me to sacrifice everything for a
world I'll never see.
Zara: I'm asking you to save a world that is robbing us
both of the men we love.

8. Lois: Lieutenant, without kindness, what is your
homeland worth? Without love, what are your lives worth?

9. Clark: Lois, I have loved you from the beginning.
Lois: And I'll love you til the end.
Clark: In my heart, I am your husband.
Lois: And I'm your wife.
Clark: Always.

10. Superman: Emerson said, "Self trust is the
essence of heroism." Inside each of you is a hero.
And, so I leave, knowing that a world full of heroes has
nothing to fear.